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About
100 Watt Productions: Innocent Anarchy is an independent theatre company that creates and produces theatre that questions our relationship to the planet and with one another. Kristina Watt Villegas leads the anarchy (more about Kristina here).
What do we do?
- 100 WATT creates innovative, boundary stretching theatre through collaboration between professional artists and young people.
- 100 WATT projects are driven by a curiosity about humanity’s relationship with nature and to one another. The respect for the environment is integrated not only into the content but in the amount of resources we use (low carbon theatre)
- 100 Watt productions embrace the tension that vibrates between innocence & anarchy, while posing universal questions that may resonate with any age.
- 100 Watt aims for innovative theatre that embraces the collision of unexpected forms
What do we believe?
- 100 Watt believes in theatre that arises from Big Questions that can be posed to artists of any age.
- 100 Watt believes that great things can only happen in a safe space, where trust and play rule.
- 100 Watt believes that the creation of theatre should come at a minimum cost to the environment
- 100 Watt believes that theatre should be an event, an event that actually adds cells to the bodies of audiences. 100 Watt believes that theatre does not only belong in a theatre.
- 100 Watt sees budget restraints as a positive impetus to explore and merge new forms that rely on exercising the imaginations of both the artists and audiences.
- 100 Watt believes in a process of intense, rigorous and play-based learning while building a new work.
Above all, 100 Watt believes that ART IS TANGIBLE. It can be felt, touched, and experienced. It has quantifiable value to all. It is magical, but it is not magic; it can be learned and that learning can be shared.
[Image Description: a circle of young people stand back to back, looking up. They wear masks on their heads and red feather scarves. Above are strings with dangling objects. The light on the back wall is fragmented.]
Selected Articles
“The 12 of 12: Climate, Youth, and that Four-Letter Word, Hope“. Intermission Magazine, April 25, 2023. Read it here.
Pellerin: On Climate Change — Let’s Listen to all Generations, Ottawa Citizen, February 2020. Read it here.
- “Why not listen to what they have to say and engage them in genuine discussion? Here in Ottawa, there’s a group of actors ages 12 to 17 trying to do just that. And their play, a 100-Watt production entitled 12, is starting to create some buzz, which thrills me no end. 12 is not a rant. Director Kristina Watt calls it “a love story of sorts between the generations.”
Climate Crisis Theatre by Youth for Adults. Critical Stages/Scenes Critiques, December/Décembre 2022: Issue No 26. Read it here.
- Quotes:
— “I consciously create a space where they are absolutely fascinated by each other.“
— “And innocence doesn’t necessarily mean an age; it’s a quality, an approach, a vulnerability, a humour.”
— “I’m infiltrating Canadian spaces with the courage to disagree and to question constant conformity for the sake of comfort where there obviously isn’t comfort.”
–“…a safe space isn’t a space where everyone agrees. That’s an unsafe space. A safe space is when there’s permission to disagree.”
Article Review: “The article is so impressive and comprehensive. I feel I’m reading about the formation of an entire school of theatre. It’s so exciting and muscular what you are creating; you and these young artists. There is something fresh and foundational about the process you are developing.”
Review: “100 Watt Production’s STUFF is a heartfelt comedy exploring the impact of overconsumption”. Apartment613, Emma Peterson. May, 8, 2024. Read it here.
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